The committee selected Mark Hollick, principal of Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School, and Jason Webster, assistant principal of The Beebe School in Malden, as finalists.

Along with serving as principal of Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School the past seven years, Hollick was the assistant principal from 2003 to 2008 and a physical education teacher from 1996 to 2003.

Webster, an assistant principal at The Beebe School since 2011, was the assistant principal at Hopkinton Middle School for four years and also taught math at the middle school and high school in Marlborough.

Hollick and Webster will interview with Superintendent Kevin Lyons and school administrators this week before visiting the middle school where they will participate in meetings with staff, parents and students.

The finalists will also meet the community during a public forum Thursday night at Quinn Middle School. The forum will be start at 6:30 p.m.

Lyons plans to choose a new principal early next week.

Daniels announced in February he would leave Hudson at the end of the school year to become the principal of Monomoy Middle School on Cape Cod.

School officials advertised the position on School Spring, an education career website.

The screening committee reviewed 33 resumes, but did not feel there were two or more qualified candidates. A a result, it suspended the search to brainstorm.

The district and New England School Development Council (NESDC) sent mailings with information on the job to all middle schools in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, as well as Massachusetts superintendents about the position, which yielded the 16 candidates, including Webster and Hollick.

Jeff Malachowski can be reached at 508-490-7466 or jmalachowski@wickedlocal.com. Follow him on Twitter @JmalachowskiMW.